Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most pressing and interesting problem; it is the problem of giving men and women a cultural education on one hand, and a vocational training on the other. It is a particularly pressing and irritating problem to the university authorities who consider the university as an institution consecrated to the task of giving men and women a cultural education and who now find more than 90 per cent of those in the universities seeking and obtaining a vocational training. To these authorities the problem is pressing because the man who comes to the university for a cultural education is not getting...
...immortal Mahan will or will not be among those present and accounted for, and that the sun will or will not set in crimson as it has and has not set before. Thus, the situation is stabilized, crystallized and clarified, and there is nothing ahead but the perfectly perfunctory task of turning out a so-called eleven, consisting of fifteen or twenty men, who will humiliate Yale and annihilate Princeton and teach the minor opponents a thing...
...Logan, Mr. Pennypacker and Mr. Moore have a trying task. The cry for a winning team is loud. The mechanics of producing it is not at all simple. The success of the Haughton teams was so sweet to Harvard men that, as they remember the scores, there is likely to be forgetfulness of the long path that led to victory. There is a competent body of men working on the problem, and impatience seven months before the first game is hardly called for, even if the stories of it make diverting reading. --The Boston Herald...
...often been. Doubtless many men go to college today who do not profit by their opportunities. But the task of judging them must be left to posterity. One Emerson will atone for legions of nobodies...
...faith in himself. It is a story of an Imperial Ego in which the Egoist describes the events of his reign "because his character and his intentions may be strangely misrepresented." They probably are, have been, and will continue to be. Napoleon proceeds to set matters right. The task is not small; his book is, however, too small to save him from the misrepresentations he feared. In the main, he tells alike of his successes and his failures, his love for Josephine, the reason for his escape from Elba, etc. The sentences are short, sometimes overbearing, sometimes modest-a perfect...